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• On the post: Educate, Don’t Isolate: How To Combat Elon Musk’s Misinformation Machine

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2024 @ 12:54pm

  Let me know when there’s evidence that this is happening at a substantial scale.

• On the post: Educate, Don’t Isolate: How To Combat Elon Musk’s Misinformation Machine

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2024 @ 12:52pm

  The Palestinians’ suffering isn’t the result of any Jewish U.S. cosmopolitan elites with dual loyalties to Israel trying to involve the U.S. in a shooting war in Iran. Whatever problems they are (or at least might be) experiencing right now or have (or at least might have) experienced in the past (and they certainly have experienced and are experiencing suffering), that doesn’t change the fact that this group you speak of doesn’t exist, or at least evidence of their existence doesn’t appear to exist. There are reasonable arguments to make on either side regarding the Israel–Gaza conflict, Israel–Palestine relations in general, and a potential conflict in Iran (even if one side in a specific area is more reasonable IMO) that don’t involve making up imaginary groups of people and falsely accusing them of wrongdoing.

• On the post: Jim Jordan & Elon Musk Suppressed Speech; Don’t Let Them Pretend It’s A Win For Free Speech

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 07:51pm

  Republicans (and Elon) are really only fair-weather friends with the Constitution, especially the First Amendment. Democrats love the Constitution and America; they criticize it because they want to make it even better.

• On the post: Jim Jordan & Elon Musk Suppressed Speech; Don’t Let Them Pretend It’s A Win For Free Speech

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 07:47pm

  Not sure how decrying censorship and fascism would help with attaining censorship or fascism…

• On the post: Jim Jordan & Elon Musk Suppressed Speech; Don’t Let Them Pretend It’s A Win For Free Speech

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 07:44pm

  The WEF doesn’t appear to be an entity that actually exists. More importantly, the point is that this doesn’t prove that GARM did anything illegal to deserve the lawsuit in the first place.

• On the post: Jim Jordan & Elon Musk Suppressed Speech; Don’t Let Them Pretend It’s A Win For Free Speech

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 07:42pm

  You’re full of it.

  What did he say that was untrue, exactly?

  Seriously, I didn’t know this website was for marxists, […]

  It’s not. Seriously, how is condemning censorship of a private nonprofit Marxism?

  […] I thought it was for practical thinkers, […]

  I’m not sure how what you’re saying is consistent with “practical thinking”.

  […] that’s the only mistake I’ve made.

  I think you made more than one mistake in just this one post, and that “mistaken” assumption isn’t one of them.

• On the post: Jim Jordan & Elon Musk Suppressed Speech; Don’t Let Them Pretend It’s A Win For Free Speech

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 07:36pm

  You could put in anything in the name field, including “Nameless”, and that would fix that. A lot of sites wouldn’t let you post anything at all without an email or name, often requiring you to register an account. Seriously, who gets mad over a default name, for crying out loud? It’s just a joke.

• On the post: Educate, Don’t Isolate: How To Combat Elon Musk’s Misinformation Machine

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 07:22pm

  Yes, he did. He said “it’s like you didn’t even read.” That is, only someone who hasn’t read what he actually said could come to that conclusion.

• On the post: Educate, Don’t Isolate: How To Combat Elon Musk’s Misinformation Machine

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2024 @ 07:20pm

  i.e. people who don’t exist

• On the post: It Always Gets Dumber: Elon Sues The Ad Coalition He Just Rejoined Because He Thinks It’s Illegal To Not Advertise On ExTwitter

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2024 @ 05:01pm

  Criticism ≠ hate speech, and the concept of anti-[person’s name] hate speech is nonsensical.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2024 @ 08:29pm

  Both of these claims are false.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2024 @ 08:29pm

  Since you’re so anti-copyright and pro-AI

  They’re not. They’re anti-copyright abuse and anti-copyright expansion, but that’s not the same as being anti-copyright. As for pro-AI, TD has been cautiously optimistic about the future while also noting that both lawmakers and companies are really jumping the shark when it comes to dealing with or using it.

  here’s what happens if you follow that path:

  So what?

  See, trump can buy his way to your blog.

  That doesn’t even follow.

• On the post: Remove Your Tinfoil Hats, Everyone; Social Media Mishaps Aren’t Always Billionaire Election Stealing Plots

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2024 @ 08:21pm

  He seems to be doing the opposite, if anything.

• On the post: Deeply Unserious 5th Circuit Declares $8 Billion Rural FCC Broadband Subsidy Program ‘Unconstitutional’

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2024 @ 08:18pm

  Gee, I wonder why a website with a focus on technology—particularly the legal side of it—might want more people to have internet connection… Clearly, it must be because they have a liberal bias!

• On the post: Instead Of Fact Checking MAGA, Democrats Have Moved On To Vibe Checking

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2024 @ 08:15pm

  I don’t see why this comment was hidden. We at Techdirt have mocked Republicans mercilessly since the Bush administration.

  Yeah, this wasn’t about mocking anyone.

  Praying for Murdoch to come to a sticky end is literally an approved commenter sport.

  No, it isn’t. Moreover, it is one thing to state that you wish someone was dead; it is quite another to do something with the explicit hope that it will lead someone to kill themself. Even the former is often frowned on here, but the latter is usually condemned much more vehemently.

  Hoping that consequences happen on straight white men is almost a moral obligation at this point.

  No, it isn’t, especially since many straight white men did nothing particularly wrong, certainly nothing deserving death. But, really, the point is moot because this isn’t about wishing consequences happen but doing something with the express purpose (futile or not) of leading to their death. These are two very different things.

• On the post: Instead Of Fact Checking MAGA, Democrats Have Moved On To Vibe Checking

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2024 @ 08:08pm

  Still not seeing evidence of dementia, certainly not over 3 years.

• On the post: Instead Of Fact Checking MAGA, Democrats Have Moved On To Vibe Checking

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2024 @ 08:06pm

  How’s it homophobic?

• On the post: No, Elon Isn’t Blocking Kamala From Getting Followers, And Congress Shouldn’t Investigate

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2024 @ 05:55pm

  For the record, this isn’t even unique to ExTwitter under Elon. I’ve been following VTubers on Twitter for several years now (it’s pretty much 95% of what I use the platform for nowadays), and every time a new one debuted for a big agency, it was extremely common for this to happen to their new accounts even back then. A bunch of people would follow them at once, and so Twitter would automatically put a hold of sorts on new followers, sometimes even removing existing follows as well, thinking this was an attempt to game the algorithm or something. After some time passed, the hold would be removed, and things would get back to normal. Same thing sometimes happened when they’d change their user name (though not their Twitter handle) to promote some event they’re involved in or something that wound up attracting a bunch of new followers. Sure, it’s likely been exacerbated by the problems Elon’s handling has introduced, but it’s far from new to the platform. It just doesn’t normally affect accounts related to presidential races because you don’t normally have the candidate pull out of the race after they’ve picked a VP, so they don’t normally need to change the Twitter handle.

• On the post: No, Elon Isn’t Blocking Kamala From Getting Followers, And Congress Shouldn’t Investigate

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2024 @ 05:42pm

  1. Yoel Roth wasn’t a censor.
  2. Roth was definitely not a communist, though he was gay (not that that is even remotely relevant to anything).
  3. No, the ExTwitter user experience is not “better than ever”. It may be so for you, personally, but that doesn’t mean it’s universally or generally objectively better (and, given your previous posts, I’m not sure that your point of view on this would be representative of the average user’s).
  4. Recklessly cutting corners is not “reduc[ing] the bloated overhead”. It’s just being greedy. The overhead was never bloated to begin with, anyways.

• On the post: Sir, This Is A Supreme Court (Not A Wendy’s)

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2024 @ 05:23pm

  The Prodigy court ruled otherwise, which was why §230 was written. You also assume that the law was supposed to make someone not liable for something they’re actually responsible for, which isn’t necessarily true. Sometimes laws are written that just state the obvious and have no actual effect.

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